Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Blog 1

It is easy to define the word “writing” as a visual method of recording or communicating a specific message. Writing, however, encompasses much more than simply that definition. Writing elicits emotions; it persuades or moves individuals in either a positive or negative way to act upon a subject or think differently on a topic.
A remix is not solely the conventional term for adding a particular twist to song; everything is a remix. Yes, even writing is included in that category. A remix is method of copying, transforming, and combining diverse ideas with one’s own. That being said, nothing is truly original. The text in an author’s writing, for instance, cannot be singularly innovative. A person’s surroundings, learnings, and experiences shape and alter the way he writes. It is not to say writing cannot be unique and different from others. It is absolutely unique in the aspect that a person takes multiple ideas, themes, and beliefs, and combines them generating a new, distinct perspective. It, however, can never rightly be noted as an original piece of work.

I hope that this class is able to help me formulate a more culturally diverse and improved remix in my writing. Although this class is much smaller than usual course sized classrooms, I expect to gain multiple and more detailed outlooks on particular aspects in writing and in our society in general. From that I hope to expand my narrow mind and make connections to things I have never noticed previous to taking this course.  

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